From our archives, 100 years ago The Rev. Fred Taylor of the Olivet Baptist Church gave his sermon on the evils of swearing. He said it was becoming impossible to avoid. Ladies were overhearing swear words on streetcars, men at barbershops.
From our archives, 100 years ago Chinese girls were being sold in the U.S. for $800 as “domestic slaves,” according to testimony in a Spokane courtroom.
From our archives, 100 years ago Spokane merchants and manufacturers were elated over the success of “Home Industry Week,” which is what today we would call “Buying Local Week.”
From our archives, 100 years ago Spirit Lake, Idaho, announced that it would hold the Spirit Lake Chautauqua in the summer of 1912 – a Chautauqua being a cross between an educational symposium and an arts festival.
From our archives, 100 years ago A Hillyard brakeman was under arrest for killing an elderly man during an argument – although he stoutly maintained that four men held them both up and he barely escaped with his own life.
From our archives, 100 years ago The Coeur d’Alene Inn, the oldest hotel in Coeur d’Alene, was destroyed by fire when two Japanese boarders accidentally overturned an oil stove in their room.
From our archives, 100 years ago J.B. Lister of Spokane wrote a letter to the editor complaining about an issue that today we would call “secondhand smoke.”
From our archives, 100 years ago Juvenile court Judge J. Stanley Webster lashed out at two Child Welfare League women who had been appointed as special police officers. He said their attitude had been “one of obstruction, opposition and abusive criticism,” and he barred them from juvenile court.
From our archives, 100 years ago The slayer of Spokane Daily Chronicle city editor Edward Rothrock gave a jailhouse interview in which he declared, “I’m glad I did it.”
From our archives, 100 years ago Recriminations, expulsions and threats of violence roiled the high school in the town of Palouse – all because of an ice cream party.
From our archives, 50 years ago A visiting speaker gave a Secretaries’ Day talk at the Davenport Hotel, outlining the qualities of an outstanding secretary, circa 1962.
From our archives, 100 years ago A Russian lumberjack named Charles Aleck walked into the offices of the Spokane Daily Chronicle, approached city editor Edward Hiram Rothrock, asked, “Are you the editor?” and then shot him dead.
From our archives, 75 years ago A young Spokane woman and a married dentist were found dead from poison in the man’s parked car, the result of a lovers’ suicide pact.
From our archives, 100 years ago Spokane’s police commissioner summarily removed the “stars” (badges) from two “special police women” after they gave an interview about the city’s “social evil” problem (prostitution).
From our archives, 100 years ago The 1912 Spokesman-Review ran a column titled “Chinookers” most days, consisting of short items of humor, poetry and random observations.
From our archives, 100 years ago The Spokane County Democratic Convention erupted in “pandemonium” and “almost riotous scenes” between forces supporting rival candidates Champ Clark and Woodrow Wilson, according to The Spokesman-Review.
From our archives, 100 years ago The “outlandish” clothing worn by students in 1912 was roundly condemned during a parent-teacher meeting at the Hawthorne School.
From our archives, 100 years ago May Arkwright Hutton and the other members of the Spokane Women Democrats hotly denied the accusation that they turned President William Howard Taft’s portrait to the wall of their meeting room.
From our archives, 100 years ago The region learned of another local man who had been on the Titanic when disaster struck. John Bertram (Bert) Brady, 40, of Pomeroy, vice president of the Pomeroy Savings Bank and “one of the leading financial men of Garfield County,” was not on the list of survivors.
From our archives, 100 years ago Sister Flora Bilkiss, Spokane’s most ardent evangelist, announced that a sacred – and frigid – event would take place at the foot of the Lower Falls of the Spokane River.
From our archives, 100 years ago For three days, a vicious dog terrorized students at the Audubon School in Spokane. The dog had somehow entered the school and had bitten a child, causing a “near-stampede.”
